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Workplace location and travel effects from teleworking

Lim, H.N. - EconWPA - 2002

Travel time losses in the Netherlands are likely to get worse in the years ahead if capacity is not added to cope with the demand. This particularly creates problems for business travel, which is characterized by a high “value of time”. In the Netherlands, policy makers have a long-standing...

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Growth challenges for the business services industry - international comparison and policy issues

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2003

This report summarises the findings of a study on the growth factors and growth prospects of the business services (BS)industry, applying an internationally comparative perspective. The report untangles factors behind the extraordinary growth of the BS industry during last decade,comparing it...

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Turbulence, Flexibility and Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm

Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …

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Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy

Audretsch, D.B.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …

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Rethinking Governance: Empirical Lessons Challenge Orthodoxy

Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

In this discussion draft, linking research findings with concrete operational challenges, we review key issues in worldwide governance, and present recent empirical evidence. Focusing on defining and unbundling key governance components, such as rule of law, voice and accountability, corruption...

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Bureaucratic limits of firm size: Academic summary

Canback, Staffan - EconWPA - 2003

performance. A review of the relevant literature, including transaction cost economics, sociological studies of bureaucracy …) Diseconomies of scale from bureaucratic failure have a negative impact on firm performance; (4) Economies of scale increase the …

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A Proposal to Promote Local Competition: The LoopCo Plan

Morris, Roy - EconWPA - 1998

The LoopCo Plan, which uses market mechanisms to promote competition, is the best approach to restructuring the telecommunications market, say its proponents, who object to the requirements and to-date implementation of the Telecommunications Act of l996. The local-loop's spin-off 's consumer...

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Non-Profits and Price-Fixing: The Case of the Ivy League

Netz, Janet S. - EconWPA - 1998

A number of private colleges and universities have chosen not to compete for students by offering merit-based financial aid. In addition, until 1990 many of these schools jointly calculated a student's financial need. I theoretically and empirically analyze the effects of different financial aid...

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Bureaucratic limits of firm size: Practitioner's summary

Canback, Staffan - EconWPA - 2003

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Diseconomies of scale in large corporations: Theory and empirical analysis

Canback, Staffan - EconWPA - 2004

corporate performance. It uses Coasian transaction cost economics and Williamson’s thinking on the nature of diseconomies of …

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